(v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, most of the eulogies now being written in his memory are extolling him as a man of peace.
(2) State intervention was the right policy, but bankers and their shareholders should have been left to enjoy the downside of the free markets whose merits they had extolled for so long.
(3) He extolls the virtues of the new Star Trek movie(!)
(4) But he went further than just tolling its end: he extolled its demise.
(5) Only human strawman Ann Coulter could find any equivalency between extoling the virtues of one’s genitals and claiming someone else’s as yours to do with as you please – and in any case, that line (from Feeling Myself) was delivered by Nicki Minaj.
(6) This thread of social Christianity extolled a reconciliation of the church and the republic in the name of a third way between capitalism and socialism.
(7) He has a well known soft spot for Middlemarch, and spent a good chunk of a speech at Brighton College in May extolling the virtues of teaching Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Blake and Eliot to primary pupils.
(8) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
(9) After a year in which the sale of Channel 5 and All3Media (the biggest remaining UK-owned independent producer) to US media conglomerates has raised questions about the increasing American dominance of British commercial TV, Lee is perhaps unsurprisingly keen to extol the virtues of the industry’s ever closer transatlantic ties.
(10) There is even a section on the museum’s website extolling the virtues of sketching, summoning the wise words of Le Corbusier.
(11) I tell Specter how proudly Remnick told me of his triumph in the Hackathlon, and that I wondered afterwards what he meant by extolling such bare-faced bad writing.
(12) "The rash of public offices in our towns and cities says more about our desire to extol the brands of our organisations than it does about our commitment to better services for clients and citizens," he said.
(13) Therefore politicians like me, who think this could be the biggest idea for teaching for generations, may extol the virtues and possible roles of a potential professional body but cannot, however much we would like to, "pledge" to set one up, or anything about it or the roles it could perform as part of a manifesto.
(14) Mindfulness, the practice of sitting still and focusing on your breath and thoughts, has surged in popularity over the last few years, with a boom in apps, online courses, books and articles extolling its virtues.
(15) During a recent appearance on BBC's Question Time , Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, extolled the importance of encouraging creativity in schools.
(16) I cringe when I hear our political leadership deliver yet another speech extolling a commitment to fighting extremism, yet in almost the time it takes to draw their next breath, go on to announce cuts to community services groups, the kind of organisations whose roles are vital in addressing the risk factors that leave one vulnerable to extremism.
(17) A straight couple extolled friends as models of evangelism, because they invited their son’s gay partner home for Christmas.
(18) China is meanwhile extolling the virtues of a free trade area in Asia Pacific .
(19) An honest republican ought to be prepared to extol the merits of the republican system.
(20) In vain, I try to extol the wonders of putting your cross in the requisite box.
Hymn
Definition:
(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(2) As the hymns faded Francis made a now familiar appeal in English: “Please,” he said, “I ask you: don’t forget to pray for me.” It was his last scheduled event in New York.
(3) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(4) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(5) In East Germany this was our hymn,” says one man.
(6) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(7) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(8) !” singing hymns and other songs The women, who are a range of ages, have travelled from across Gauteng province and are and saying a prayer ahead of a planned march in the city centre.
(9) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(10) A hymn of praise, and a word of warning,” the book has been compiled by two titans of pragmatic ecology, Nigel Holmes and Paul Raven.
(11) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
(12) She was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant for leukaemia when I was writing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and I went through a life-questioning crisis.
(13) The song – which cannot be described as great art - like many National Anthems including our own, is strident and solemn, and could be hymn.
(14) John Kampfner: Clegg has an opportunity now to strike out After Chairman Mao and the 1950s hymn book , the Liberal Democrats had the chance of offering something more modern and enticing than their rivals.
(15) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
(16) I know the hymns and I know the prayers and I know the good done by many Christians in the act of witness.
(17) The point is that Marine can have a clear-out, and everyone will now (more or less) sing from the same hymn sheet: hers.
(18) In Battle Hymn …, she writes that she was determined "not to raise a soft, entitled child – not to let my family fall".
(19) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
(20) There was even a chant of "Attack, attack, attack" from the Stretford End as the game kicked off as if in anticipation of the shackles of unadventurous football being thrown off, plus any number of favourite hymns to Giggs and Paul Scholes.